Insect-destroying device.



Patented Apr. 1,1919.

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Patented Apr, 1,1919.

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Patented Apr. 1, 1919.

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ANTON C. MENGE, `OFll/IYIRTLE GROVE, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-FOURTH T0 CHARLES J. LAFITTE AND ONE-FOURTH TO ALBERTf W. SHORT, BOTH OF MYRTLE GROVE, LOUISIANAn INSECT-DESTROYING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1, 1919.

To all whom t may concern:

. Be it known' that I, ANTON C. MENGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Myrtle Grove in the parish of Plaquemines and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Insect-Destroying Devices, of which the following is a specification.A y U r l This invention relates to an insect destroying device which may be employed to accomplish the destruction of winged and crawling pests, such as ants, beetles, ies and the like.

f The primaryobject of the invention is to provide aportable and inexpensive Vdevice of this' character wherein .aplurality .of baits for attracting the pests to be destroyed are withdrawn, one at a time, from afbait magazine and maintained in position exteriorly of the magazine for a sufficient length of time to permit aconsiderable number of the insects to alight thereon, after which the baits arev deposited within a receptacle containing an insecticide.

Another object of the invention is s to provide the device `with a bait holder to receive the baits when withdrawn from the bait magazine which is so constructed and mounted, that when more than one bait has been deposited thereon, `the bait holder will tilt and deposit the first bait which has been conveyed thereto into the receptacle containing the insecticide.

A further object ofthe invention is to provide a bait holder which has associated therewith an arm which when the bait holder is tilted under the weight of a plu- `rality of .baits deposited thereon `prevents the bait last conveyed to the holder from being deposited within the Vreceptacle containing the insecticide. i l

A still further object of the invention is to provide the device with mechanism for conveying the baits from the magazine to the bait holder which is so Vconstructed that its continuous. operation may he accomplished by hydraulic or mechanical means if found desirable.

With these and other objects in view, the invention resides `in the `novel combination and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The embodiments of the invention have been illustratedin the accompanying drawings, although no restriction is necessarily made to the precise details of construction thereln shown, as changes, alterations, and modifications within 'the scope of the claims may be resorted towhen desired.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, partly in section of the preferred form ofran insect destroying device in` which the door of the b ait magazine is shown open.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of the preferred form of the device showing the bait holder in tilted position..

Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on the line 8-3 of Fig. 2.4

Fig.' 4 is a section similar to Fig. 3 taken von the line l1`-4 of Fig. 2. l

Fig. 5 is a view and side elevation with parts broken away of a modified form of the invention. y i

Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of a portion of the bait holder shown in Fig'. 5 in the drawings and the mechanism for maintaining the baits therein.

Like characters' of reference denote corresponding parts throughoutr the several views in the drawings.

VReferring now in detail y to Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, the letter A designates a pest destroying device constructed in accordance with the invention wherein a base 5 has mounted thereon a plurality of cups 6 adapted to contain a suitable insecticide and with4 each cup having extending upwardly therefrom a central standard 7 provided at its upper end with a flanged head 8.

A baitmagazine 9 has its base 10 secured to the heads 8 and comprises aside wall 11, an inclined top 12, end `walls 13 and 14, and a door 15 for closing the open side of the magazine.

The magazine 9 has formed therein'` a longitudinally extending and zigzag channel 16, the lower wall of which serves as a support for a plurality of cylindrical baits 17 which under the influence of gravity are caused to roll toward an outlet opening 18 `at the lower end of the end wall 14 of the magazine and adjacent lwhich the base 10 has formed therein a pair of` spaced slotsy 19. Each bait 17 is formed from a roll of absorbent material such as cotton gauze or the like with the cotton gauze preferably saturated with some sticky material and held in roll formation by split bands 1.7',

`55 the ymagazine as shown.

The base has connected therewith a pair of spaced arms which extend beyond the endgwall `14k-of the magazine and have mounted to turn therein a shaft 21 to which 5 is Xed a drum 22 having extending'radially therefrom spaced and curved ngers 23 arranged in pairs vand which duringfthe rotation of the drum by suitable mechanism provided for this purpose which in thisinstance 10 has been shownas a spring motor 24 are cansedto pass through the slots. 19 and withinfthe channel y16 in the 1`na`gazineto engage a bait 1,7 and conveytheba'itto an inclined chute' 25'. p v

l'1"5 The chute 25 is supported'within a frame work` 26 mounted upon the base 5 andprovided with an inclined cover 27 overlying the chute entending beyond a bait holder`28. The baitholder28 which closes 2b an end ofthe fchute 25 mounted to 4rock upon a shaft `29 kslrlppited by the frame work 26, 'with'the bait holder havingfo'rmed thereon a pair of spacedarmsSO which eX- tend "beneath the bottom of the chute and 25 normally enga-ge a support 31 therefor,

which serves as a stop to limit the tilting movement of the bait holder in one direction.

The arms 30 on the bait holder are ar- 30 ranged upon opposite sides of a curved bait retainingbar 32 secured to the frame 4work 26 below the holder, so thatwhen afpliirality of the baits have been conveyed to the arms 30 through the rotation ofthe drum 2-2, the

weight off'f'the haits'will besufficien't to turn the holder abontits/pi'votal connection and cause the bar 32 to pass between the baits on the arm andretain the bait last positioned uponthe holder thereon as the other bait y rollsfrom the holder Aand into a receptacle "33 containing 4an insecticide.

sj one of the baits 17 rolls fromthe arms 30, the weightvof the body portion of the y holder is suilicient to counter-balance the 4'5 weight of the bait retained thereon and the arms and swing the holde'rto itsnormal position ,at which time 'the bait retained upon theholder being free from engagement with `the-.har 32 rolls on the arms 30 into contact with the support 31. y

When it is desired to employ' the inventiony shown in Figs. V1 to 4 inthe drawings for the destruction of destructive pests, the baits are arranged in the zigzag channel in The motor22i is now wound to cause the drum 22 'to rotate,so that the fingers thereon will at predetermined intervals convey a y 4hait from the magazine to the chute 25. .The iirst bait which is conveyed to the chute rolling along the same until it drops upon the arms 80 Iand rolls into contact with the support 31. p The bait Awhich is resting upon 4the armsA 30 beingfthe Aonly one which is eX- posed Vattracts the pests'which it is desired to destroy in great numbers, until another bait is conveyed to the chute and drops upon the arms 30, at which time the bait holder will tilt and thebait which was iirst deposited -therecn will be dropped into the receptacle 34 for the destruction of the insects adhering thereto.

In the modified form of the invention shown in Figs. `5 and 6 in the drawings the baits 17 are conveyed oneat a time Vfrom a 75 bait magazine 35 to an inclined chtite 36 by a rotatable drum '37 substantially the same in construction as the drum 22, with the-exception that the'drurn 37 mounted thereon a plurality of buckets 38 which are 80 adapted to` receive therein the dri "plings from a liquid receptacle 39 m'ountecij upon the chute 36 whereby the liquid in the receptacle 39 may be employed izo-continuously rotate the drum Sfo'r the' conv"eyingoil the 85 baits 17 fromithefmagazine 35 to the'chute 36 at predetermined intervals.

At the discharged end of the chute is mounted to Vswing a gateV y39V having formed thereon an actuatingarm 40 arranged ez'r- 1V'90 teriorly of the chute 36 and adapted lto be engaged bythe locking nose 451 on a latch bar 42 pivotally mounted onthe 'chute 36. The drum 37 has .eXtendingwradially there- "from a plurality of 'fingers 43 which during "'95 the rotation of the'tlrum engage the `latch bar 42 and release the 'same `from contact with the arm40, so that the bait 17 in the chute 36 under the iniiuence of gravity Vwill move the gate `to open position and Vdrop within a tank "44 containing an insecticide and arranged'below the discharge end of the chute 36. K A

Frein the foregoing description, taken in connection Vwith 'the accompanying -d`raw ings,it is at once'"apparentthatV a device yfor eXterminating insects has "been provided which thoughcomparatively inexpensive of manufacture, is'highly elicient for the purpose set `forth.

Having thus described'the invention, what is claimed as new, is:-

1. An insect destroying device comprising a hopper, adhesive coated baits therein, a receptacle containinginsecticide, means for conveying the baits'from the hopper to the receptacle,said means including a drum, iingers thereon iforengaging the baits, means `for rotating 'the drum and means `for regulating the speed of said drum, and means -associated with the conveying 'ineansfor causing each'bait to pauselfer va limitedperi'o'd.

2. In an insect destroyingdevice, spaced receptacles, baits withinv one 'of said receptacles, means for withdrawing said baits Vfrom the said receptacle, and 'mean'sto receive the baits withdrawn from thesaid receptacle operable under the weight Aof a plurality "of the baits to deposit thesarne one at a time inthe other ofthe receptacles.

3. An insect destroying device comprising a magazine, baits within the magazine, means for withdrawing said baits from the magazine, a receptacle, and a bait holder to reeeive the baits withdrawn from the magazine mourted to tilt under the influence of a plurality of said baits and to deposit one of the baits thereon when tilted into said receptacle.

4. An insect destroying device comprising a base, a magazine on said base, baits within said magazine, means for withdrawing said baits from said magazine, a receptacle on said base, a bait holder to receive the baits withdrawn from said magazine mounted to tilt under the influence of a plurality of the baits and deposit one of the baits thereon into said receptacle, and a retaining bar on said base to engage with the other bait on the holder and retain the same thereon while the bait holder is tilted.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ANTON C. MENGE.

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